COPENHAGEN – Foreign students wanting to study business administration and leadership at Denmark’s Roskilde University got a shock in September when they found out they were no longer welcome. For a university that has earned millions from foreign students in a country with a documented shortage of skilled workers, it was a curious move.

The university had been accused of creating a back door route into the country, with Bangladeshi students in particular suspected of applying in order to get around Denmark’s stricter work rules.

The decision to close the course – discussed in parliament and backed by prime minister Mette Frederiksen’s left-leaning party – made it clear that the governing Social Democrats meant business on immigration. It also came barely two months before municipal

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